Author: Elliott Davis

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s shocking announcement that she is leaving Congress in January is still reverberating in Washington and beyond. The news, delivered Friday in a lengthy statement, appears to have caught some people off guard — including President Trump, whose feud with the Georgia Republican and the beef’s rippling effects played a role in…

State Department officials on Saturday aggressively pushed back on claims shared by some senators that President Trump’s 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine originated from Russia and is not the administration’s position. Earlier on Saturday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin reported comments from Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) where the lawmakers claimed…

President Trump on Friday night said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) announcement that she is leaving Congress in early January is “great news for the country” — perhaps pouring salt on the wound one week after pulling his support from her. The president told ABC News’s Rachel Scott that Greene, formerly one of Trump’s biggest…

President Trump late Friday suggested that former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former Attorney General Merrick Garland and other Biden administration officials “should be prosecuted” over their involvement in the investigation into the president’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. In a Truth Social post published just prior to departing for his Asia trip, Trump also named former FBI Director Christopher Wray and former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. All four officials are frequent targets of the president’s ire. “Just in: Documents show conclusively that Christopher Wray, Deranged Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and other crooked lowlifes from…

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Saturday that he will not be “intimidated” or “deterred” by President Trump’s perceived retribution threats, as a growing number of officials on the commander in chief’s perceived enemies list face charges. The California Democrat, both a frequent critic of the president and target of his ire, said in a video posted on the social platform X that Trump’s “long and growing” list is not a secret, while warning his Republican colleagues that even they will not be protected from the president’s “vengeance.” “But we will not be intimidated,” he wrote in post accompanying the…